All Posts: News Release

• Taking Neuroscience to School: Brain Scans Reveal the Hidden Shape of Thinking and Predict Students’ Learning Better Than Test Scores

  Category: News Release Tags: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, learning, mind, neuroscience

• NSF Awards Georgetown University $12.5M to Establish Institute for Emerging Virus Research

  WASHINGTON (August 10, 2022) — The National Science Foundation has awarded Georgetown University $12.5 million to lead a global team of scientists in establishing a collaborative institute designed to advance research and education around viral emergence — the process of viruses jumping from animals to humans. The Verena (Viral Emergence Research Initiative) Biology Integration Institute, […]

  Category: News Release Tags: Center for Global Health Science and Security, grants and awards, pandemic, pandemic preparedness, research, Verena Biology Integration Institute

• Georgetown Awarded $23.6M to Study Treatments for Acute Rhinosinusitis

  WASHINGTON (July 28, 2022) — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has awarded a Georgetown University Medical Center research team led by Dan Merenstein, MD, professor of family medicine at Georgetown’s School of Medicine and professor of human science at the School of Health, $23.6 million in research funding to study treatments for acute rhinosinusitis. […]

  Category: News Release Tags: acute rhinosinusitis, research, School of Health, School of Medicine

• Informing Children of a Mother’s Genetic Cancer Risk Does Not Impact Their Health Behaviors

  Category: News Release Tags: genetic counseling, Georgetown Lombardi

• Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Launches BellRinger, Local Bike Ride to End Cancer

  Category: News Release Tag: Georgetown Lombardi

• Intensive Telephone-Based Cessation Counseling Results in Improved Smoking Quit Rates

  Category: News Release Tags: Georgetown Lombardi, smoking cessation

• Biomarkers Found That Could Be Drug Targets Against a Deadly Form of Brain Cancer

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, brain tumor, cancer, cancer research

• Lack of Diversity of Microorganisms in the Gut or Elevated Metabolite Implicated in Heart Failure Severity

  Category: News Release Tags: gut health, heart failure, School of Nursing

• Guidance for Talking To Children Following the Elementary School Shooting in Texas

  WASHINGTON (May 25, 2022) — The news out of Uvalde, Texas, where an 18-year-old man gunned down 19 innocent children and two adults and left several critically injured at an elementary school, has left many parents and caregivers wondering how to talk to their children about their safety. “This tragic event is heartbreaking and terrifying […]

  Category: News Release Tag: child and adolescent mental health

• Georgetown University Announces Dr. Christopher King as Inaugural Dean for School of Health

  WASHINGTON (May 12, 2022) — Georgetown University announced today the appointment of Christopher J. King, Ph.D., MHSc, FACHE, associate professor and chair of the Department of Health Systems Administration at the School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS), as dean of its new School of Health when it launches on July 1. “Dr. King has […]

  Category: News Release Tags: new faculty appointment, School of Health, School of Nursing & Health Studies